One of my first ideas for this project was quite a personal topic of a Life In Pictures, which i would be focusing on my own home life and documenting it, such as family events and the relationships in my family and also relationships outside of my home life. Focusing on the strong friendships which are in mine and others family and also my own friendships with people. I would document all of this and general routines at home . After looking at different artists who document their own home life as they are close to their families such as Juliette Mills who has photographed her families weddings, funerals and just social events of them together, i have seen that they like to work in black and white as it works well to get the textures an black and white also brings out the emotions from the images, especially the ones from a funeral. If i chose this as my main topic the style would be to make quite simple yet strong images in black and white.
My second and I feel most strongest idea has been inspired by two photographers Julian Germain and Kaylynn Deveney. Julian Germain did a book called 'For every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of Happiness' which focused on an elderly man called Charles Snelling, all the images were taking over 8 years, as he lives alone at his home. Kaylynn Deveney did a series of images called 'The Day To Day Life of Albert Hastings' which is just simple yet strong images of an elderly man and his daily routines. Which have handwritting underneath the images as a caption, which has a documentary and diary feel about it, it seems very natural which i feel i could do very well, by making them simple images and probably having a style of putting them in Black and white would work well with the older nature of the images.
3rd Initial Idea- Focusing on Architecture and Building work in the city of York, the difference between modern and antique buildings and the contrasts. For the old buildings in york such as the minster and other buildings as i am aiming for a documentary style project i want to research the history of each building and write small simple yet strong captions for each building.
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